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While looking things over between Tank roles between Warriors & Paladins, I remember that Druids in Vanilla could come close to Armor Capping when maxing out Raids buffs.
So my question is theoretically, what is the highest Armor, EH, (possibly Avoidance?) can a tank get at it's highest peak?
Armor Damage Reduction Formula
According to Blizzard UI elements, the formulas for Damage Reduction are as follows for WoW 2.0.8
Levels 1 - 59 DR% = Armor / (Armor+400+85*Level)
Levels 60+ DR% = Armor / (Armor+400+85*(Level+4.5*(Level-59)))
I am not sure if applies accurately for 1.12.x
I did read a thread here on Nost about "Armor and Damage Reduction Calculations" which I found to be useful.
mindbullets wrote: The Armor cap is widely reported to be 75% damage reduction (I have no confirmation of this, only old forum posts). Against a level 63 mob (i.e. a raid boss) this gives an Armor cap of 20708. However, given limited data about how the damage reduction scales with enemy level, it is still difficult to say for certain if this formula works for enemy level 63. Use at your own risk.
I think based on some research this should be the more accurate cap:
Armor / (Armor - 22167.5 + 467.5 * MobLevel) for levels 60+
So according to the equation (if its correct) would be:
21855 / (21855 - 22167.5 + 467.5 * 63) = 75% reduction
21855 is the armor cap.
so with that being said, I was wanting to know, theoretically what do you think the highest armor we can get unbuffed, and then of course... fully raid buffed!
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Paladin BiS
Health: 5401
Armor: 10889 (9916+973)
60 - 66.4%
Defense: 440
Crit: 12.08%
Block: 23.32% (06% equipped)
Dodge: 16.12% (04% equipped)
Parry: 17.32% (02% equipped)
+Hit: 05.00% (02% equipped)
Warrior BiS
Health: 6939 (7285 with Endurance)
Armor: 10781
60 - 66.2%
Defense: 445
Crit: 11.64%
Block: 34.52% (19% equipped)
Dodge: 17.72% (08% equipped)
Parry: 15.52%
+Hit: 09.00%
This was done using the BiS for each class (sorry I didn't add Druids yet since I don't know their BiS).
Paladin did have Devo Aura on (because of the Libram), but other then that everything else was unbuffed, I didn't calculate fully raid buffed, and left that for you guys to openly discuss